Vehicle-wheel tire.



' A. T. SGARAMUZZL V VEHICLE-WHEEL TIRE.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 7, 1910.

Patented Apr. 11, 1911.

Unrrnn s'rnrns ANTONY T. scARAMU'zzI,

Parana* onirica.

or PATnnsoN. N-nw rarrasar. AssIGNon or cnn-HALF To PAUL SACCO, F PATERSQN. NEW JERSEY.

VEHICLE-WHEEL Tina.

To all whom 'it concern: l

-Be it known that I, AX'roNY`T.` Solmsiiuzzna citizen of the United States, resid- -in Paterson, Passaic county, New Jersey, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Vehicle-Wheel Tires; and I do hereby' declare the following tobe a full, clear, and exact description fof the invention, such as will enable others 'skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use thesame, reference being had'to the accompanying' drawings, and yto letters of reference marked thereon, which form, a

' part 4of this. specication.

tiresand"particularly to vehicle wheel .tires place on the rimwill be securely held there? which may be mentioned thosev of the sim-7 This in vention relates to vehicle wheel of thecellular'or hollow type.

The 'object of this invention is to provide atire which may be readily v applied to and removed from the wheel rimand when in to by any suit-able lockin@r means,iamong pler orf more conventional type.

. Affurther object of the invention is soto construct a tire that if it takes the form Aof a neumatic or inflatedtireits construction will be such that the ossibility 'of puncturing it'fwill' b e -consierably reduced Land,

although' it maybe punctured, the-.tire may.4 still becontinued in servicefatleast until itis convenient to repair the puncture.

"Referring 4tothe accompanying drawing,

Figure =1 1s a cross-sectional view. of the improved tire andv the felly and rimV of a .wheel,1the 'section' beingtaken infa plane.

coincident'with one ofthe devices for, se-

`curing theaforesaid .three parts together,

. which means appears' in elevation; Fig. 2 `isV 40a similar view taken in a plane coincident with-one ofthe air valves which-leadstothe radially inward.orintermediate cell of theV improved tire, sai-d yair valve appearing iuy elevation; Fig,j3 is.' asimilar view taken in a plane coincidentwithone of 'the air valves which leads to one of the lateral'c'ells of the' tire, said Aair valve appearing in elevation;

and, Fig. 4; is a detail' of a part of the means shown in- Fig. 1. Y

The tire fhas the exterior formof a cylinder,I except for the projection b at itsl inner peripheryfn'which projection; being formed -withgthe 'lateral-shoulders c, is adapted-to seatgandf-interlock with `the rim d, whose lateral ledges are, turned in yto l Specification of Letters Patent.

Application inea June 7, 1910. sei-iai N; 565,540.

Patented apr. 1i, 191i..V

x'form channels e receivingv the shoulders'V c;

any desired manner.- y.

' The tire is hollow. as shown, and it has the radially outwardly converging'fwalls g the threev cells it and z', z', the cellk being stantially lobe-shaped. The cells'az', i, ex.- tend radially 'outwardly f altlieitlia'n the cell h and are spaced from eachother at their outer ends, leaving'rfsolicl"portionjv of `the rim (Z may be attached to the telly? f 'in .6.0 which dividethe interior of the tirefinto substantially triangular -and in.terpos`ed be I tween the other two, i, a'. which-are sub1 the' tire therebetween, which solid-portion is continuously, except at the middle partof its projection b, where-it-isinterrupted; thev preferably 4part-wayup into the portion j ofthe tire. The remainder of the tire, to fwit, the'radially inward part of portionj, 'each of the walls g, and theinterinediate rubber or a substance comprising lrubber.

side walls ofthe tire.;-

.In view of the construction, itwill be seen (which wall is cross-sectionallycontinuous) including its tread and side portions are re tained durable and resistant to puncture and blow-outs the sameas tires built up of rubber and duckor similar materials, the more elastic portions'thereof permit internal pressure 4to act to expand thetire (while its cellular form is thereby preserved), the effect of'whicli expansionyjll mainly to .force laterally the' shoulders c,1,l'into lockapplied to or removed from the. rim with cpmparatlive' ease, when it is inflated' the inrubber and duckformation also extends fportion of the'projection Z), is composed of having greater'elasticity ,than the tread and that, whilethe superficial wall 'of the tire ing engagement with the'V -rimjdf -,Whil c, therefore, when the tire isdeflated it may be` Q 'esa/isi passed through the radially inward portion of the tire, its head .being inward audits i threaded portion protruding and having screwed upon it the nut p which bears against a metal washer g, the head 7' of the bolt resting against an elastic washer s preventing leakage by wayof the hole through which the bolt is passed. Passed through" theI felly andrim is a screw t which is tapped into the shank of the bolt o which is hollow and internally threaded for this purpose.

To accommodate the nut p,'t he rim d may.

be recessed, as at u, as seen inFig. 1.'

The cells h and z', t areindepend-entV ofeach other in the preferred construction and eachhas independent valved means forinflating it. The construction of the-three sets of'valved means is the same, so a description of one will serve for' the others.

In Figs. 2 and 3 'v is 'a valve tubel of usual construction which islr passed throughthe radially inward portion of the tire centrally thereof and through theholes w and a: in the corresponding portions of the' rim. and felly.- The inner endof this/valvetubehas a head.

y' whichbearsl against anelastic washer s' serving. to preventfleakage around 'the Valve tube. The, valve tube is exterorly threaded, and 4onto it is screwed al nut 2,which bears against a washer 3, and thus coacts with the 4head y' to exert'the' necessary pressure on `the washer z. The rim may be recessed, as

at 4, to' receive the nut 2. The'valve tube leading to the celllz,l enters'the same directly.

Each of the other two valve tubes enters the' corresponding cells z', z', through the medium of the passages pwhichare formed by the A arched walls 6 closing off 'the inner ends the perspective air tubes from the intermediatecell .71.. Thus, if a puncture should cause the deflationfof any one of the three' cells, the other twowould remaln in service, since' each is independent of the others.

It should benoted. that the arrangement of the cells issuch that while the tire 'has the desired elasticity or ylife, the'vchances of its beingpunctured are much less than in the case of theordinary tire', because in the line of the greatest wear its tread portion is thick, that is from the lower side of thecell h downwardly, the two' cells i being suiii- 'ciently spaced so that Athe puncturing of either' ofl them is generally not lilrely'lto occur. v Having thus fully described my invention,

what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

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A pneumatic vehicle .wheeltire .having two cells arranged in spaced relation to each other in the cross-section of the tire and ex- .tending circumferentially thereof and a third cell; arranged'between the rst two cells, in combination withftliree separate in- Hating meausfor the-.several cells all arf ranged substantially in -the central vertical plane of thetire,.one of said iniating means 4discharging into-the .third-named'cell, and

said tire having two walls forming each with the outer. tire wall a passage, one of said passages lconnecting one of the two cells 'firstnamedwith one, and the other of said passages connecting the other of Ithe-two cells firstnamed with they other, of the remaining -two iniatingmeans, substantially as described In'testimony, that I claim the foregoing vI havev hereunto set my hand this L1th day of June 1910. l i

A. T. SCARAMUZZL YVitnesses:

J oHN W.S'rnwAnu, WM. D. BELL.

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